January 18

January 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2005
 * The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. ~ Lord Acton
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. ~ Robert Anton Wilson (born 18 January 1932)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. ~ Robert Anton Wilson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. ~ Charles de Montesquieu (born 18 January 1689)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. ~ Robert Anton Wilson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * "Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still. ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
 * proposed by Kalki

Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.'' ~ Jacob Bronowski ~
 * 2012
 * ''The force that makes the winter grow
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2013 :


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki

2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude...we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves. ~ Charles de Montesquieu (born January 18, 1689)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 18:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The law: It has honored us; may we honor it. ~ Daniel Webster
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization. ~ Daniel Webster
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill
 * Naglem 20:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:16, 19 January 2007 (UTC) (though I would rank it 3 or perhaps even a 4, if proposed for a date with which it had some clear correlation).
 * 1 Zarbon 18:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm back. ~ Michael Jordan (Announcing his return to the Bulls, 03/18/1995).
 * Naglem 12:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:02, 18 January 2007 (UTC) This was originally proposed on the page for the 19th; I have moved it here to have a stronger relation to the date.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
 * 3 Zarbon 05:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:53, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

You have to study a great deal to know a little. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
 * 3 Zarbon 05:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:53, 17 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. ~ Rubén Darío
 * 4 Zarbon 05:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 03:53, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. ~ Daniel Webster
 * 2 Zarbon 05:45, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:53, 17 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. ~ Robert Anton Wilson ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 14:38, 13 January 2011 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experience, because he himself re-creates them. ~ Jacob Bronowski
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:41, 3 January 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * proposed by Spannerjam
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 13:20, 16 January 2014 (UTC) but I might rank it higher on Burton's birthday (19 March); this doesn't have clear relation to this particular date.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC) but with a lean toward 2, because part of this was used in 2017.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)